Venice Critics’ Week Names New Head
Venice Film Festival independent sidebar Critics’ Week has hired Beatrice Fiorentino as its new General Delegate, replacing Giona A. Nazzaro who left earlier this year to take the reins at Locarno. Fiorentino is a journalist, critic and teacher who has been a member of the Critics’ Week selection committee since 2016. “I proudly and with great enthusiasm take on this challenge, aware of the responsibility that was trusted on me. Together with the selection committee and the new programming team we will work in continuity with the path of those who preceded us. We don’t have to create anything new. We will keep our gaze well focused on the present and the future of cinema,” she said.
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Venice Film Festival independent sidebar Critics’ Week has hired Beatrice Fiorentino as its new General Delegate, replacing Giona A. Nazzaro who left earlier this year to take the reins at Locarno. Fiorentino is a journalist, critic and teacher who has been a member of the Critics’ Week selection committee since 2016. “I proudly and with great enthusiasm take on this challenge, aware of the responsibility that was trusted on me. Together with the selection committee and the new programming team we will work in continuity with the path of those who preceded us. We don’t have to create anything new. We will keep our gaze well focused on the present and the future of cinema,” she said.
Nick Manzi Among Lionsgate UK Departures
Nick Manzi, head of productions and acquisitions at Lionsgate UK, is set to leave the company, we can confirm. As we revealed earlier this month,...
- 11/30/2020
- by Tom Grater, Andreas Wiseman and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Polynesian-themed “Moana” required significant tech upgrades for water and hair, especially since the ocean interacts with the teenage heroine and the coiled hairstyling needed to flow more naturally.
So to mark their first CG movie, hand-drawn directors John Musker and Ron Clements (“The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin”) insisted on a 2D aesthetic that bridged the gap even closer.
“The greatest thing of hand-drawn is the expressiveness and the animators were happy to push it with tricks to break the CG and make it bend more,” Musker told IndieWire. “We also really loved working in the hand-drawn elements like the moving tattoos and the special Mini-Maui character [a Jiminy Cricket-like conscience for Dwayne Johnson’s demigod Maui].”
“This is really the first time, at least from the point of view of the hand-drawn animators, that we all felt that we were working on the same movie together,” added 2D Animation Supervisor Eric Goldberg (“Aladdin”). “It really felt like the old...
So to mark their first CG movie, hand-drawn directors John Musker and Ron Clements (“The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin”) insisted on a 2D aesthetic that bridged the gap even closer.
“The greatest thing of hand-drawn is the expressiveness and the animators were happy to push it with tricks to break the CG and make it bend more,” Musker told IndieWire. “We also really loved working in the hand-drawn elements like the moving tattoos and the special Mini-Maui character [a Jiminy Cricket-like conscience for Dwayne Johnson’s demigod Maui].”
“This is really the first time, at least from the point of view of the hand-drawn animators, that we all felt that we were working on the same movie together,” added 2D Animation Supervisor Eric Goldberg (“Aladdin”). “It really felt like the old...
- 11/22/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Did you know that Dougray Scott was cast to play Wolverine, in the summer blockbuster X-Men? He had to leave the project because of his work on Mission: Impossible II. Did you know that in Batman: Forever, strings can be seen on the helicopter after it explodes against the "Lady Liberty" statue? Did you know that Simon Weisse, prop-maker of Hellboy, was an uncredited model maker for Inglorious Basterds!?
Of course you did! And it's all thanks to the Internet Movie Database, IMDb.com... which turned 20 today, October 17th, 2010.
Nerds, cinemaphiles, and popular comicbook/pop culture bloggers have been turning to this amazing source of sometimes useless, sometimes shocking, always acutely specific database of movies and television information now for two whole decades. Just ask yourself, where would you be without it? How many bar fights did you prevent by using your iPhone to assure your comrades that Wil Wheaton...
Of course you did! And it's all thanks to the Internet Movie Database, IMDb.com... which turned 20 today, October 17th, 2010.
Nerds, cinemaphiles, and popular comicbook/pop culture bloggers have been turning to this amazing source of sometimes useless, sometimes shocking, always acutely specific database of movies and television information now for two whole decades. Just ask yourself, where would you be without it? How many bar fights did you prevent by using your iPhone to assure your comrades that Wil Wheaton...
- 10/18/2010
- by Marc Alan Fishman
- Comicmix.com
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